http://entretags.de/blog Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:14:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been one month since I presented my thesis, concluding the Master Course in Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. As the practical part of my thesis I developed {Hi}Stories, a system to support user-generated contents as historical records. The documentation of {Hi}Stories can be ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=69 Just got to know a survey released this year by IDC, which attempted to measure and forecast the amounts and types of digital information created and copied in the world - and whether it is generated from individuals or businesses. In this research the amount of information created and copying was ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=68 In All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation, Scott Rettberg distinguishes three types of participation a contributor might have in a collective narrative project: Conscious participation: Contributors are fully conscious of explicit constraints, of the nature of the project, and of how their contribution to it might ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=67 The term Collective Narratives might have different meanings. In my thesis I use the term Narrative firstly to stress the mode of discourse I'm considering: Narrative = describing an experience, event, or series of events as a Story - which is of course different from expository discourse, persuasive discourse, etc. In ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=64 Two big projects with the motto 'ordinary people writing history' are being lauched this month: Einestages and Miomi Einestages was launched last week. It is a website of Spiegel online, one of the most visited german websites, which is also part of Der Spiegel, one of the largest-circulation news magazines published ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=63 I just joined Facebook and noticed this kind of 'stories' each member automatically builds. It is a list of statements, organized in groups, which describe the activity of each person in the system. The presentation of this statements in consecutive order sets up an implied causality, which may be interpreted ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=60 Storypaths aims to explore the meaning of images in different contexts. The starting point for your story is a Flickr image. By adding some text to this image, your words are interpreted as tags. Images with these tags are going to appear next to inspire your next writing. Just pick ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=57 I was proud to know that one brazilian website was the winner of the Golden Nica 2007, in the category 'Digital Communities'. Overmundo is an online discussion forum that aims to bridge geographical and social barriers in Brazil. It conveys culturally and socio-politically discussions and scenes from large urban centers ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=55 Started in Berlin Dropping Knowledge is a good example of what I call 'collective narratives'. The proposal is quite interesting: by asking questions and getting different answers from people all over the world we are able to understand better how they perceive their environments. Asking questions is in a why ... http://entretags.de/blog/?p=51 I just got the 2007 DAAD Prize for International Students (DAAD-Preis für ausländische Studierende). The prize is awarded for special academic and intercultural achievements :)) A note can be found on the university's website (German only). http://entretags.de/blog/?p=50